Word: uprooting
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...Washington and London have been hoping that Islamabad will seize the crisis as an opportunity to permanently uproot the training camps that were first used by militant proxies of the Pakistani army to stage raids into Indian-administered Kashmir. Qureshi, the Pakistani Foreign Minister, insists that this has been done. "Absolutely," he said. "Whatever action needed to be taken has been taken." But his counterparts across the border are yet to be convinced...
Early polls appeared to show that Netanyahu, 59, would be a sure winner. His hammering on about the many military threats to Israel made his lead look insurmountable. "There is no choice but to uproot the Iranian-backed regime in Gaza," he told a Wednesday campaign rally. But by the weekend, Netanyahu's lead in the polls was slipping. Livni was right behind him, and gaining...
...Sanader has vowed that the government will do "whatever it takes" to uproot organized crime, and on Tuesday, Ivan Simonovic, Croatia's newly appointed Justice Minister, announced a series of measures aimed at curbing organized crime. These include new legislation to allow criminals' property to be confiscated, as well as the establishment of a new police agency, modeled on America's Federal Bureau of Investigation. But the new measures still need to be approved by the parliament, and it will be months before they take effect...
...Amsterdam's "anything goes" attitude, Cohen and city officials have vowed to finally crack down on what they say are extensive criminal networks operating in the neighborhood. Their campaign won't bring an end to prostitution, which has been legal in the Netherlands since 2000; nor will they systematically uproot the red-light district's scores of coffeehouses, where the sale of marijuana and hallucinogenic mushrooms has long been allowed. But the easy tolerance of sex and drugs that has so long characterized Amsterdam is fading fast. In its place comes a growing concern over the criminal enterprises that have...
...race is on: if the defiance of men like Chief is to be encouraged, General Sabban and the country's armed forces must uproot the remnants of Abu Sayyaf, and do so before they lose their grip on the hearts and minds they've so lately...